Colic

Definition: Colic

Colic

Noun

1. Acute abdominal pain (especially in infants).

Date "colic" was first used: sometime around 1421. (references)

Domain	Definition
Health	Paroxysms of pain. This condition usually occurs in the abdominal region but may occur in other body regions as well. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonym: Colic

Synonym: intestinal colic (n). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Physical Pain	Spasm, cramp; nightmare, ephialtes; crick, stitch; thrill, convulsion, throe; throb. (agitation); pang; colic; kink.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Domain	Title
Books	Chinese Massage For Infants And Children: Traditional Techniques for Alleviating Colic, Colds, Earaches, and Other Common Childhood Conditions (reference) From colic to college : chuckling your way through parenthood (reference) Curing Colic and Lactose Intolerance With Homeopathy (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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	Punch cures the Gout, the Colic, and the Tisic. / Jas. Gillray del. Credit: National Library of Medicine.		Southern remedies. HAH & Co. [device]. The Hindoo remedy for asiatic cholera, cholera morbus, dysentery, diarrhea, cramp colic, & c. Prepared by H.A. Hughes & Co., druggists, Louisville, Ky. Credit: Library of Congress.
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Title	Author	Quote
Walden	Thoreau, Henry David	Let Harlequin be taken with a fit of the colic and his trappings will have to serve that mood too.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Subject	Topic	Quote
Health		Other signs and symptoms at this stage include vague abdominal pain, intestinal cramps, colic, and nausea. (references)
		These allergies sometimes do not involve hives and asthma, but rather lead to colic, and perhaps blood in the stool or poor growth. (references)
		Attacks of biliary colic (intense pain) are common after treatment, and ESWL's success rate is not very high. Remaining stones can sometimes be dissolved with medication. (references)
Lexicography	Devil's Dictionary	SYMBOLIC, adj. Pertaining to symbols and the use and interpretation of symbols. They say 'tis conscience feels compunction; I hold that that's the stomach's function, For of the sinner I have noted That when he's sinned he's somewhat bloated, Or ill some other ghastly fashion Within that bowel of compassion. True, I believe the only sinner Is he that eats a shabby dinner. You know how Adam with good reason, For eating apples out of season, Was "cursed." But that is all symbolic: The truth is, Adam had the colic. G.J. T T, the twentieth letter of the English alphabet, was by the Greeks absurdly called tau. In the alphabet whence ours comes it had the form of the rude corkscrew of the period, and when it stood alone (which was more than the Phoenicians could always do) signified Tallegal, translated by the learned Dr. Brownrigg, "tanglefoot."
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

"Colic" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 92.00% of the time. "Colic" is used about 125 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)	92%	115	30,138
Noun (proper)	7.2%	9	117,287
Noun (common)	0.8%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	125	N/A

Expressions using "colic": biliary colic ♦ colic artery ♦ colic root ♦ colic vein ♦ copper colic ♦ Hepatic colic ♦ intestinal colic ♦ lead colic ♦ mucous colic ♦ ordinary colic ♦ Painter's colic ♦ potter's colic ♦ renal colic ♦ salivary colic ♦ saturnine colic ♦ suffer from colic ♦ wind colic ♦ zinc colic. Additional references.
Hyphenated Usage
	Beginning with "colic": colic-type.
	Ending with "colic": lead-colic.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Language		Translations for "colic"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		dhimbje barku (bellyache, cramps). (various references)

Arabic		‏مغصي, ‏مغص (belly ache, cramp, gripes, stomach ache, suffer from colic). (various references)

Chinese		绞痛. (various references)

Czech		kolika (gripes, ileus). (various references)

Danish		spædbarnskolik (newborn colic), mavekneb (abdominal colic, belly-ache, gripes), kolik (abdominal colic, belly-ache, gripes, intestinal colic). (various references)

Dutch		colica, tormenta (abdominal colic, belly-ache, gripes), koliek (abdominal colic, belly-ache, gripes), darmkoliek bij zuigelingen (newborn colic), darmkoliek (abdominal colic, belly-ache, gripes, intestinal colic, intestinal crisis, tabetic crisis), buikpijn (abdominal colic, abdominal pain, belly-ache, gripes), buikkramp (abdominal colic, belly-ache, gripes). (various references)

Farsi		قولنجی , قولنج (Bellyache, Gripe), بخاریاگازمعده . (various references)

Finnish		imeväisen vatsakoliikki (newborn colic). (various references)

French		colique (colonic). (various references)

German		kolik. (various references)

Greek		κωλικόσ (anal), κωλικόπονοσ, κωλικός πόνος,κωλικός (belly-ache, gripes), κολικόσ, κολικός, βρεφικός κολικός (newborn colic). (various references)

Hebrew		מעי� �". (various references)

Hungarian		ólomkólika (painter's colic). (various references)

Indonesian		salut perut, mules (gripes). (various references)

Italian		colica. (various references)

Japanese Kanji		疝気 . (various references)

Japanese Katakana		せ�"き (battle flag, military history, military secrets, strategy, time for battle). (various references)

Korean		산통. (various references)

Manx		greim collane (gripes), gorley gailley (belly ache). (various references)

Pig Latin		oliccay

Portuguese		cólica (cramp, mulligrubs). (various references)

Romanian		colicã (gripe), durere acutã. (various references)

Russian		резкая боль, колика (cramp, gripe). (various references)

Scottish		abaideal. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		kolik, grčevi u trbuhu. (various references)

Spanish		cólico (colonic). (various references)

Swedish		kolik (gripe). (various references)

Turkish		sancı (ache, gripes, pain, pang, stitch, throe, travail, twinge), kolik (colonic), kalınbağırsak sancısı. (various references)

Turkmen		sanjy. (various references)

Ukrainian		різкий біль, коліки. (various references)

Welsh		bolwst (gripes), bolgnofa (gripes), bolgno (gripes). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	colo, colorum, multicoloria. (various references)
Late Latin	300-700	colicus. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "colic": colicin, colicine, colicines, colicins, colicky, colicroot, colicroots, colics. (additional references)
	Words ending with "colic": bucolic, glycolic. (additional references)
	Words containing "colic": bucolically, bucolics, scolices. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Colic" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Bolic, Cailich, calib, callic, Callick, caolic, ccoeliac, celic, Celik, Celiku, cellic, Ceplac, cilig, clec, clic, clik, cloac, cloi, cloid, cloil, clonic, cloric, Cloyce, coelis, Coic, coii, coiii, Coillach, Colcy, colec, coli, colick, colics, colicy, colid, colim, colio, colip, Collco, collec, colli, collic, collick, Collio, collip, collis, Colucci, Conlig, Conlisk, cooli, coolis, coolish, coric, cosic, Cromlix, Cuzick, cxli, cxliii, cylic, ecoli, kelic, klic, Kosleck, kovic, lc-lec, Ncoic, Ocli, olic, Scolnick, solic. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "c-c-i-l-o"
	-1 letter: coil, loci.
	-2 letters: col, oil.
	-3 letters: li, lo.
	Words containing the letters "c-c-i-l-o"
	+1 letter: calico, clonic, colics, flocci.
	+2 letters: bucolic, calicos, caloric, chloric, cockily, codicil, coeliac, colicin, colicky, colitic, colonic, comical, conical, council, cowlick, cycloid, ecbolic, laconic, piccolo, vocalic.
	+3 letters: alopecic, biocycle, broccoli, bucolics, cacomixl, calicoes, calorics, carbolic, catholic, choicely, choleric, classico, cleidoic, clitoric, clocking, cobaltic, cockbill, cocklike, cockling, cocktail, codicils, coelomic, colicine, colicins, colonics, columbic, complice, conflict, cornicle, cortical, cosmical, councils, cowlicks, coxalgic, curculio, cyclitol, cycloids, cyclonic, cyclosis, ecbolics, ecocidal, ecologic, floccing, flocculi, glucosic, glycolic, glyconic, iconical, lactonic, libeccio, licorice, piccolos, picklock, scolices, vocalics, volcanic.
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Expression	Frequency per Day	Expression	Frequency per Day
colic	712	colic formula	5
baby colic	130	newborn colic	5
horse colic	64	colic surgery	4
infant colic	47	colic medicine	4
renal colic	45	baby bottle colic	4
colic zdravko	35	colic horse symptom	4
biliary colic	33	cause of colic	4
colic in horse	29	colic mp3 zdravko	4
colic remedy	26	colic tablet	4
equine colic	17	colic formula infant	3
colic in baby	15	colic help	3
colic cure	12	colic sign	3
colic symptom	11	infantile colic	3
colic home remedy	8	colic goat	3
colic in infant	8	colic horse treatment	3
colic treatment	7	colic puppy	3
breast feeding and colic	7	adult colic	3
colic relief	6	colic cure baby	3
sand colic	6	kidney colic	3
bladder colic gall	6	colic chiropractic	3
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Colic

Definition: Colic

Colic

Noun

Specialty Definition: Colic

Synonym: Colic

Synonyms within Context: Colic

Physical Pain

Crosswords: Colic

Commercial Usage: Colic

Books

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Use in Literature: Colic

Walden

Thoreau, Henry David

Non-Fiction Usage: Colic

Lexicography

Devil's Dictionary

Usage Frequency: Colic

Expression: Colic

Frequency of Internet Keywords: Colic

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